zeitguy
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I traded up from my Canon SD980 because I wanted the stereo sound for HD movies, longer zoom, and I have always had Nikons. I am not sure, after only 5 days and few hundred pix, if I did the right thing. Nikon has a slower lens (3.5 vs 2.8), much less of a wide angle (30 mm equiv. versus 24 mm -- a significant difference) and a clunkier interface, particularly for changing shooting parameters in the field. Other than that I love it, and particularly love being able to set hue to zero to preview and shoot in black and white. Real black and white photography, from the moment, not on the computer. That is almost worth the price of the camera right there.
Problems:
The camera has frozen up on me between shots. At full resolution recovery for the next shot is preety slow, even without flash, in normal mode. On the other hand, if you want to slice a fast moving scene, the 16 shots mode at 30 fps is a hoot. I am learning, so if I find out I am doing something dumb to hang processing, I will update this post.
Problems:
The camera has frozen up on me between shots. At full resolution recovery for the next shot is preety slow, even without flash, in normal mode. On the other hand, if you want to slice a fast moving scene, the 16 shots mode at 30 fps is a hoot. I am learning, so if I find out I am doing something dumb to hang processing, I will update this post.